Btw, if gun rights and religious liberty are now in peril because of the death of one man, then the system has FAILED and the time has come for another revolution.
"Day by day, case by case, the Supreme Court is busy designing a Constitution for a country I do not recognize." -- Antonin Scalia
Time for We The People to revolt!
"Day by day, case by case, the Supreme Court is busy designing a Constitution for a country I do not recognize." -- Antonin Scalia
Time for We The People to revolt!
Lol.....yeah the Obama admin had somebody killed by using a plane crash because there isn't a hundred easier ways to do it.
Too funny.
Kinda like obama birth announcement in 2 Hawai newspapers on the chance he might be president. Sometimes you can only shake your head at the lunacy.
Too funny.
Kinda like obama birth announcement in 2 Hawai newspapers on the chance he might be president. Sometimes you can only shake your head at the lunacy.
Why yes, yes we do, you silly lying asshole.
In 2007, Schumer Called For Blocking All Bush Supreme Court Nominations, guesser said not 1 word and did not care about “the constitution!”
Miguel Estrada received a unanimous "well qualified" rating from the ABA yet Senate Dems blocked his nomination for 28 months. Guesser said not 1 word and did not care about “the constitution!”
Senator Obama voted to filibuster the nomination of Justice Alito. Guesser said not 1 word and did not care about “the constitution!”
As a Senator, Obama personally led the effort to block Bush's nomination of Leslie Southwick to the Fifth Circuit. Guesser said not 1 word and did not care about “the constitution!”
All of these things happened while this sewer rat pile of shit was a member of this forum. Guess how many critical posts this stupid, lying idiot made about those things?
Scalia's Death Saves Unions From Momentous Ruling Ending Political Power
Among these is Friedrichs v. California Teacher’s Association, set to have been a landmark case regarding the mandatory collection of union dues and their use for political purposes. The ruling could have meant the death knell of collective bargaining and the political might of America’s unions.
Had the Supreme Court ruled that union dues could not be used for political purposes, it would have dealt a major blow to one of the Democratic party’s most powerful assets.
http://www.newsmax.com/Headline/scalia-death-pending-cases/2016/02/14/id/714359/#ixzz40FNkpUYi
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Very dark forces are manipulating and controlling the political system.
"natural causes"
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Among these is Friedrichs v. California Teacher’s Association, set to have been a landmark case regarding the mandatory collection of union dues and their use for political purposes. The ruling could have meant the death knell of collective bargaining and the political might of America’s unions.
Had the Supreme Court ruled that union dues could not be used for political purposes, it would have dealt a major blow to one of the Democratic party’s most powerful assets.
http://www.newsmax.com/Headline/scalia-death-pending-cases/2016/02/14/id/714359/#ixzz40FNkpUYi
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Very dark forces are manipulating and controlling the political system.
"natural causes"
uke1:
I just love how the Republicans told Barry not even to waste any time time nominating someone - Trump will be appointing the next justice and hopefully it will be lineal descendant of Ghengus Khan - for about 4-5 hours dems were so happy about Scalias death until McConnell said hold on a minute
[h=6]- FEBRUARY 14, 2016 -[/h][h=1]TRUMP: ANTONIN SCALIA WAS ‘ONE OF THE BEST OF ALL TIME’[/h]Business Insider
Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump hailed the legacy of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia on Saturday.
Scalia was found dead at the age of 79 earlier in the day.
"Justice Scalia was a remarkable person and a brilliant Supreme Court Justice, one of the best of all time," Trump said.
Scalia was a considered a hero by many conservatives because of his sharp wit and consistent advocacy on behalf of originalism, or interpreting the Constitution as its drafters intended it at the time.
"His career was defined by his reverence for the Constitution and his legacy of protecting Americans’ most cherished freedoms," Trump continued. "He was a justice who did not believe in legislating from the bench and he is a person whom I held in the highest regard and will always greatly respect his intelligence and conviction to uphold the Constitution of our country."
Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump hailed the legacy of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia on Saturday.
Scalia was found dead at the age of 79 earlier in the day.
"Justice Scalia was a remarkable person and a brilliant Supreme Court Justice, one of the best of all time," Trump said.
Scalia was a considered a hero by many conservatives because of his sharp wit and consistent advocacy on behalf of originalism, or interpreting the Constitution as its drafters intended it at the time.
"His career was defined by his reverence for the Constitution and his legacy of protecting Americans’ most cherished freedoms," Trump continued. "He was a justice who did not believe in legislating from the bench and he is a person whom I held in the highest regard and will always greatly respect his intelligence and conviction to uphold the Constitution of our country."
[h=1]'We were best buddies': Ruth Bader Ginsburg pays tribute to her unlikely friend Justice Scalia and fondly remembers their decades of being the odd couple of DC[/h]
PUBLISHED: 20:24, 14 February 2016 | UPDATED: 12:29, 15 February 2016
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia has been remembered by his ideological opponent Ruth Bader Ginsburg today in a touching statement, a day after he died from an apparent heart attack in Texas.
The late Justice Scalia, a renowned conservative, and his liberal best friend on the Supreme Court, Ginsburg, put ideology aside to strike up one of Washington's most memorable friendships.
In a statement released today Ginsburg called the late justice her 'treasured friend.'
'From our years together at the D.C. Circuit, we were best buddies,' she wrote.
'He was a jurist of captivating brilliance and wit, with a rare talent to make even the most sober judge laugh,' she noted.
'The press referred to his "energetic fervor," "astringent intellect," "peppery prose," "acumen," and "affability," all apt descriptions,' Ginsburg continued. 'He was eminently quotable, his pungent opinions so clearly stated that his words never slipped from the reader's grasp.'
The late Antonin Scalia (left) and Ruth Bader Ginsburg (right) were ideological opposites and also the best of friends for decades
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg (fourth from left) and Antonin Scalia (fifth from left) were 'supers' or extras for the Washington National Opera's production of 'Ariadne auf Naxos' in January of 1994
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Also in 1994, Antonin Scalia and Ruth Bader Ginsburg visited India and rode an elephant. Scalia poked fun at Ginsburg's feminist friends for remarking on the fact that she had to sit behind him on the elephant. She suggested 'it was a matter of distribution of weight'
Their back-and-forths at public events often seemed more like comedy routines than sentiments shared by two sitting Supreme Court justices.
Take that time last year when Ginsburg was caught snoozing through President Obama's State of the Union address.
'That's the first intelligent thing you've done,' Scalia suggested, as Ginsburg admitted she was a little bit drunk.
The two sat side-by-side last February for a Smithsonian Associates event and talked at length about their 'odd couple' status in D.C.
'As you can see, he's a very funny fellow,' Ginsburg said at the time.
The duo had been friends since serving as appeals court judges on the D.C. circuit.
'I vowed this year, just sparking water, stay way from the wine, but in the end, the dinner was so delicious that it needed wine, too,' Ginsburg said. 'So I got a call when I came home from one of my granddaughters and she said, 'bubby you were sleeping through the State of the Union."'
Scalia, who had skipped the annual speech since the Reagan years, approved of his good friend Ginsburg not being '100 percent sober.'
They also discussed some of their favorite times together.
Ginsburg said she loved being 'supers' or extras with Scalia during performances with the Washington National Opera, as the two were both huge fans on the genre.
In her statement she also recalled a particular night at the annual Opera Ball celebration in which Scalia joined two tenors at the piano for a medley of songs.
'He called it the famous Three Tenors performance,' Ginsburg wrote. 'He was, indeed, a magnificent performer.'
In her tribute to Scalia, Ginsburg also quoted the opera based upon their friendship.
'Toward the end of the opera Scalia/Ginsburg tenor Scalia and soprano Ginsburg sing a duet: "We are different, we are one," different in our interpretation of written texts, one in our reverence for the Constitution and the institution we serve,' she said, suggesting that these lines hit the nail on the head.
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'That's the first intelligent thing you've done,' the late Antonin Scalia said of Ruth Bader Ginsburg's decision to drink wine before last year's State of the Union, which lulled the justice to sleep
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The unexpected death of Antonin Scalia concludes one of Washington's most unique friendships, which Scalia once called 'the odd couple'
But when Scalia spoke in 2015, he pushed those opera memories aside, saying he liked the duo's elephant story best.
The two justices visited India together in 1994 and ended up riding an elephant.
'Do you have any idea how tall an elephant is?' Scalia mused.
'And some of her feminist friends gave me a hard time, or gave her a hard time, because she rode behind me on the elephant. Big deal. I'm not kidding.'
Ginsburg was prepared with a reply.
'The driver explained it was a matter of distribution of weight,' Ginsburg said.
Scalia also had a good laugh remembering the time that Ginsburg went parasailing.
'Ruth, honest to goodness, went up behind a motorboat in a sail ...,' Scalia recalled.
'A parasail,' Ginsburg cut in.
'She's so light you'd think she'd never come down,' Scalia added. 'I would not do that in a thousand years.'
Ginsburg said she had been watching the parasailers from her window. 'So I said, why not?' she said.
At another joint appearance, this time at the National Press Club in April 2014, Ginsburg told the audience about the time she was really mad at Scalia.
'The VMI case – remember that?' Ginsburg said, pointing to the 1996 case that struck down Virginia Military Institute's males-only admissions policy.
'And you had a stirring dissent,' she said of Scalia.
'Yes, it was a great dissent,' Scalia replied.
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At a April 2014 event at the National Press Club, Ruth Bader Ginsburg reminded Antonin Scalia of the one case that really got her mad at him - the 1996 Virginia Military Institute case. Scalia had ribbed Ginsburg for not knowing that the University of Virginia's main campus was in Charlottesville, Virginia
.'Remember that the chief justice voted for my judgment, not your dissenting opinion?' Ginsburg rubbed in. The beef began with a footnote from Scalia.
'And one time, I had a footnote that referred to the University of Virginia at Charlottesville. You had a footnote back saying, "Well, you have to forgive this ignorant person because she doesn't know that there is no University of Virginia Charlottesville; well, there is only a University of Virginia,"' Ginsburg recalled.
Scalia had corrected her for not realizing that the Charlottesville, Virginia campus of the university is its main campus.
When Ginsburg was given Scalia's full dissent, it put her in a bad mood.
'I read the thing on the plane and it ruined my whole weekend,' she said.
But even then, Scalia proved he was a good friend.
He had dropped off the dissent with Ginsburg days before he passed it around to the rest of the justices, which gave her some bonus time to write.
'That he gave me the extra days to respond, I really appreciated that,' she said.
'If you cannot disagree with your colleagues on the law without taking it personally, you ought to get another day job,' Scalia said.
In her statement today, Ginsburg paid homage to Scalia's snappy writing.
'We disagreed now and then, but when I wrote for the Court and received a Scalia dissent, the opinion ultimately released was notably better than my initial circulation,' she wrote.
'Justice Scalia nailed all the weak spots – the "applesauce" and "argle bargle" – and gave me just what I needed to strengthen the majority opinion. He was a jurist of captivating brilliance and wit, with a rare talent to make even the most sober judge laugh,' she said.
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- While they were ideologically opposite, Justice Antonin Scalia and Ruth Bader Ginsburg were good friends
- They struck up a friendship while serving as appeals court judges on the D.C. circuit
- Some of their favorite memories included riding an elephant together in India and being extras for the Washington National Opera
- Scalia was found dead yesterday at a West Texas ranch due to an apparent heart attack at age 79
PUBLISHED: 20:24, 14 February 2016 | UPDATED: 12:29, 15 February 2016
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia has been remembered by his ideological opponent Ruth Bader Ginsburg today in a touching statement, a day after he died from an apparent heart attack in Texas.
The late Justice Scalia, a renowned conservative, and his liberal best friend on the Supreme Court, Ginsburg, put ideology aside to strike up one of Washington's most memorable friendships.
In a statement released today Ginsburg called the late justice her 'treasured friend.'
'From our years together at the D.C. Circuit, we were best buddies,' she wrote.
'He was a jurist of captivating brilliance and wit, with a rare talent to make even the most sober judge laugh,' she noted.
'The press referred to his "energetic fervor," "astringent intellect," "peppery prose," "acumen," and "affability," all apt descriptions,' Ginsburg continued. 'He was eminently quotable, his pungent opinions so clearly stated that his words never slipped from the reader's grasp.'
The late Antonin Scalia (left) and Ruth Bader Ginsburg (right) were ideological opposites and also the best of friends for decades
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg (fourth from left) and Antonin Scalia (fifth from left) were 'supers' or extras for the Washington National Opera's production of 'Ariadne auf Naxos' in January of 1994
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Also in 1994, Antonin Scalia and Ruth Bader Ginsburg visited India and rode an elephant. Scalia poked fun at Ginsburg's feminist friends for remarking on the fact that she had to sit behind him on the elephant. She suggested 'it was a matter of distribution of weight'
Their back-and-forths at public events often seemed more like comedy routines than sentiments shared by two sitting Supreme Court justices.
Take that time last year when Ginsburg was caught snoozing through President Obama's State of the Union address.
'That's the first intelligent thing you've done,' Scalia suggested, as Ginsburg admitted she was a little bit drunk.
The two sat side-by-side last February for a Smithsonian Associates event and talked at length about their 'odd couple' status in D.C.
'As you can see, he's a very funny fellow,' Ginsburg said at the time.
The duo had been friends since serving as appeals court judges on the D.C. circuit.
'I vowed this year, just sparking water, stay way from the wine, but in the end, the dinner was so delicious that it needed wine, too,' Ginsburg said. 'So I got a call when I came home from one of my granddaughters and she said, 'bubby you were sleeping through the State of the Union."'
Scalia, who had skipped the annual speech since the Reagan years, approved of his good friend Ginsburg not being '100 percent sober.'
They also discussed some of their favorite times together.
Ginsburg said she loved being 'supers' or extras with Scalia during performances with the Washington National Opera, as the two were both huge fans on the genre.
In her statement she also recalled a particular night at the annual Opera Ball celebration in which Scalia joined two tenors at the piano for a medley of songs.
'He called it the famous Three Tenors performance,' Ginsburg wrote. 'He was, indeed, a magnificent performer.'
In her tribute to Scalia, Ginsburg also quoted the opera based upon their friendship.
'Toward the end of the opera Scalia/Ginsburg tenor Scalia and soprano Ginsburg sing a duet: "We are different, we are one," different in our interpretation of written texts, one in our reverence for the Constitution and the institution we serve,' she said, suggesting that these lines hit the nail on the head.
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'That's the first intelligent thing you've done,' the late Antonin Scalia said of Ruth Bader Ginsburg's decision to drink wine before last year's State of the Union, which lulled the justice to sleep
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The unexpected death of Antonin Scalia concludes one of Washington's most unique friendships, which Scalia once called 'the odd couple'
But when Scalia spoke in 2015, he pushed those opera memories aside, saying he liked the duo's elephant story best.
The two justices visited India together in 1994 and ended up riding an elephant.
'Do you have any idea how tall an elephant is?' Scalia mused.
'And some of her feminist friends gave me a hard time, or gave her a hard time, because she rode behind me on the elephant. Big deal. I'm not kidding.'
Ginsburg was prepared with a reply.
'The driver explained it was a matter of distribution of weight,' Ginsburg said.
Scalia also had a good laugh remembering the time that Ginsburg went parasailing.
'Ruth, honest to goodness, went up behind a motorboat in a sail ...,' Scalia recalled.
'A parasail,' Ginsburg cut in.
'She's so light you'd think she'd never come down,' Scalia added. 'I would not do that in a thousand years.'
Ginsburg said she had been watching the parasailers from her window. 'So I said, why not?' she said.
At another joint appearance, this time at the National Press Club in April 2014, Ginsburg told the audience about the time she was really mad at Scalia.
'The VMI case – remember that?' Ginsburg said, pointing to the 1996 case that struck down Virginia Military Institute's males-only admissions policy.
'And you had a stirring dissent,' she said of Scalia.
'Yes, it was a great dissent,' Scalia replied.
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At a April 2014 event at the National Press Club, Ruth Bader Ginsburg reminded Antonin Scalia of the one case that really got her mad at him - the 1996 Virginia Military Institute case. Scalia had ribbed Ginsburg for not knowing that the University of Virginia's main campus was in Charlottesville, Virginia
.'Remember that the chief justice voted for my judgment, not your dissenting opinion?' Ginsburg rubbed in. The beef began with a footnote from Scalia.
'And one time, I had a footnote that referred to the University of Virginia at Charlottesville. You had a footnote back saying, "Well, you have to forgive this ignorant person because she doesn't know that there is no University of Virginia Charlottesville; well, there is only a University of Virginia,"' Ginsburg recalled.
Scalia had corrected her for not realizing that the Charlottesville, Virginia campus of the university is its main campus.
When Ginsburg was given Scalia's full dissent, it put her in a bad mood.
'I read the thing on the plane and it ruined my whole weekend,' she said.
But even then, Scalia proved he was a good friend.
He had dropped off the dissent with Ginsburg days before he passed it around to the rest of the justices, which gave her some bonus time to write.
'That he gave me the extra days to respond, I really appreciated that,' she said.
'If you cannot disagree with your colleagues on the law without taking it personally, you ought to get another day job,' Scalia said.
In her statement today, Ginsburg paid homage to Scalia's snappy writing.
'We disagreed now and then, but when I wrote for the Court and received a Scalia dissent, the opinion ultimately released was notably better than my initial circulation,' she wrote.
'Justice Scalia nailed all the weak spots – the "applesauce" and "argle bargle" – and gave me just what I needed to strengthen the majority opinion. He was a jurist of captivating brilliance and wit, with a rare talent to make even the most sober judge laugh,' she said.
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Welcome Back The Great John Oliver:
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John Oliver Slams Republicans Over Blocking Antonin Scalia’s SCOTUS Replacement
In his return to HBO’s ‘Last Week Tonight,’ the Brit took aim at Mitch McConnell and the Republican leadership for advocating against the president’s Constitutional right.
In an unprecedented move, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell released the following statement just one hour after the sudden passing of divisive Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia: “The American people should have a voice in the selection of their next Supreme Court Justice. Therefore, this vacancy should not be filled until we have a new president.”
While there have been Senate objections to SCOTUS appointees in the past under similar circumstances, launching an instant, preemptive rejection of any candidate the president chooses is a first.
And after a long hiatus, Last Week Tonight’s John Oliver took time on his late-night HBO program first to honor Scalia for being a “hugely significant justice” whose “death is the end of an era on the Supreme Court,” before addressing the elephant in the room: “The fact is, there is now a huge vacancy on the Supreme Court that needs to be filled—or, if you listened to the Republicans in the last 24 hours, not,” said Oliver.
He then threw to a clip of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump endorsing Sen. McConnell’s historic stand during last night’s South Carolina debate, saying, “I think it’s up to Mitch McConnell and everybody else to stop it. It’s called delay, delay, delay.”
“Well, that does not bode well because Mitch McConnell is actually pretty good at delaying things for people—whether it’s legislation, court appointments, or orgasms,” joked Oliver. “Believe me, if you ever need to ‘delay, delay, delay’ [an orgasm], just picture [McConnell’s] face and I guarantee you nothing will happen possibly for the rest of your life.
Oliver then explored the “strange, unwritten rule” that the Senate is using to justify the block: the ‘Thurmond Rule,’ which says that no president in the last six months of their presidency should be able to appoint a judge that has a lifetime appointment.
“Yes, the Strom Thurmond Rule,” Oliver said. “Now, I’m not surprised that there is one, it’s just I thought it would always be about the amount of hush money required to keep your secret family a secret, or how racist an old person is allowed to be before their age is no longer an excuse.”
“If Mitch McConnell does want to invoke this rule, he will need to be careful because during the George W. Bush years, when Democrats were trying to pull this Thurmond Rule bullshit to prevent lower court appointments, he was pretty categorical about it,” he added.
He then threw to a 2008 clip of Sen. McConnell addressing the Senate:
“Our Democratic colleagues continually talk about the so-called ‘Thurmond Rule,’ under which the Senate supposedly stops confirming judges in a presidential election year,” said McConnell. “This seeming obsession with this rule that doesn’t exist is just an excuse for our colleagues to run out the clock on qualified nominees who are waiting to fill badly-needed vacancies.”
Oops. Sen. McConnell also stated in 2005 that he supported a sitting president’s absolute right to nominate judges, although that—again—was when a Republican sat in the White House.
“Yes, it seems the ‘Thurmond Rule’ is a bit like God: when things are going your way, you don’t bring it up a lot, but as soon as you’re in trouble it is all that you talk about,” quipped Oliver.
Of course, since the Thurmond Rule applies to the last six months of a president’s term, it wouldn’t even come into effect until July 20. Either way, to outright deny President Obama’s choice to a fair nomination process would likely go against the wishes of the late Antonin Scalia, who, as Sen. Marco Rubio stated in the recent South Carolina debate, understood that the Constitution was not a “living and breathing” document and was meant to be interpreted by its “original meaning.”
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“He’s right,” said Oliver. “Scalia loved the letter of the law—so let’s look at the letter as it applies here, shall we? Article II, Section 2 of the Constitution says, ‘[The President] shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint… Judges of the Supreme Court. That’s the president. This president. There is nothing in the Constitution about you getting to delay him for a year because of some bullshit tradition.”
He continued, “So to Senate Republicans, I say this: If you really loved Antonin Scalia, you wouldn’t honor his memory by desecrating the thing he loved the most. Think of Scalia like a Britta filter or a child’s hamster: Why don’t you honor his entire reason for being by swiftly and efficiently replacing him.”
Oliver is great......very easy to see hypocrisy in republicans. It's the way they live their lives. It's who they are as people. That's why they don't even know it's hypocrisy at the highest level......it's because that's who they are their entire life.
